LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Cabin Cruiser
LIFE-BOATS AND HELICOPTER IN LONG SEARCH Beaumaris, Anglesey; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 8.32 on the evening of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the Beaumaris honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down off...
A Naval Aeroplane (1)
- Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.13 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard, that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HYTHE, KENT.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment in the neighbourhood of this place, the station being styled the Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkestone Life-boat Station. The boat is manned by a joint crew of...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (6)
Newquay, Cornwall. At 12.11 p.m.
on 13th August, 1965, while the IRB was co-operating with the Padstow life-boat on Newquay life-boat day, the crew saw a dinghy in difficulties drifting towards the Towan Headland and Cribba...
Two Sussex IRB Rescues
Two inshore rescue boats stationed on the Sussex coast at Hastings and Brighton carried out difficult rescues on the afternoon of Sunday, 25th June, for which framed letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the...
Category: Services
From Two East Londons.
On the same day the Institution received two gifts, each of two guineas, from masonic lodges. One gift had travelled a few miles, from East London, the other 6,000 miles, from East London in South Africa..
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Feature: Come See the Show
By the time this issue of the Lifeboat reaches you, the Schroders London International Boat Show 2004 will already be in full swing. This year's event, which runs from 8-18 January, is special for several reasons.
Not...
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Dutch Service to a British Steamer. 41 Lives Rescued from a Vessel of the Elder Dempster Line
T/ie following is an abbreviated version of a graphic account of a fine service to a British vessel which appears in De Reddingboot, the journal of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society, for last June. The three Life-boats engaged...
Category: Services
Trawler Strikes Cliff-Face
A SERVICE carried out by a reserve life-boat, which resulted in the saving of three lives, has led to the award of the bronze medal for gallantry to the Howth coxswain, Joseph McLoughlin.
The first intimation of a boat in...
Category: Services
A Steamer (11)
MARCH 3RD. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A steamer was on fire, but when the life-boat reached her she found the ship’s boats gone and no one on board.
- Rewards, £16 7s..